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The Power of Ecstatic Trance: Practices for Healing, Spiritual Growth, and Accessing the Universal Mind
A guide to ecstatic trance for spiritual and emotional development, spirit journeying, and connection to the collective unconscious
• Describes more than 20 ecstatic trance postures for healing, divination, spirit journeys, shape-shifting, past-life recovery, and connecting to the Akashic field
• Explores the physiology and psychology of ecstatic trance journeying
• Provides guidance for those with little or no experience as well as methods to deepen practice
Over the millennia shamanic trance journeying has been used as a way of healing, of providing answers to questions, and of offering solutions to individual, family, and community problems. Though traditionally it was the shaman of the community who went on such journeys, the revolutionary work of the late anthropologist Felicitas Goodman shows that we all have these shamanic powers. Her research on the body postures found in ancient primitive art and in the practices of contemporary shamans offers each of us the ability to experience ecstatic trance journeys firsthand.
A student of Felicitas Goodman and Belinda Gore, psychologist Nicholas Brink examines more than 20 traditional trance postures for divination, decision making, letting go of guilt and grief, healing of illness and emotional pain, spirit journeys, shape-shifting, interacting with animal spirits and the dead, and discovering past lives. Exploring the physiology and psychology of ecstatic journeying, he offers guidance for those with little or no experience as well as methods for longtime practitioners to deepen their practice and reclaim the extrasensory power of our ancient ancestors. Offering solid theories of how ecstatic trance triggers healing and spiritual development, Brink explains how trance journeying allows us to tap in to the collective unconscious, or Universal Mind, and access the information matrix of the Akashic field.
• Describes more than 20 ecstatic trance postures for healing, divination, spirit journeys, shape-shifting, past-life recovery, and connecting to the Akashic field
• Explores the physiology and psychology of ecstatic trance journeying
• Provides guidance for those with little or no experience as well as methods to deepen practice
Over the millennia shamanic trance journeying has been used as a way of healing, of providing answers to questions, and of offering solutions to individual, family, and community problems. Though traditionally it was the shaman of the community who went on such journeys, the revolutionary work of the late anthropologist Felicitas Goodman shows that we all have these shamanic powers. Her research on the body postures found in ancient primitive art and in the practices of contemporary shamans offers each of us the ability to experience ecstatic trance journeys firsthand.
A student of Felicitas Goodman and Belinda Gore, psychologist Nicholas Brink examines more than 20 traditional trance postures for divination, decision making, letting go of guilt and grief, healing of illness and emotional pain, spirit journeys, shape-shifting, interacting with animal spirits and the dead, and discovering past lives. Exploring the physiology and psychology of ecstatic journeying, he offers guidance for those with little or no experience as well as methods for longtime practitioners to deepen their practice and reclaim the extrasensory power of our ancient ancestors. Offering solid theories of how ecstatic trance triggers healing and spiritual development, Brink explains how trance journeying allows us to tap in to the collective unconscious, or Universal Mind, and access the information matrix of the Akashic field.
- GenresSpiritualityNonfiction
287 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 15, 2013
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About the author
Nicholas E. Brink
9 books26 followersI received my PhD in educational psychology from UCLA in 1970 and had a practice in clinical psychology in Lewisburg, PA for 25 years. I used hypnosis as a major tool in providing psychotherapy. In 2007 I discovered ecstatic trance from the writing of Felicitas Goodman and since then it has become a central interest and central to my writing. I have offered workshops on ecstatic trance around the country and have a regular monthly workshop here in Central Pennsylvania.
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October 4, 2018
The material was really interesting. However I still have not yet had a chance to try the postures mentioned myself. So my review will likely be updated once I try them out. Basically Brink suggests different postures to meditate in, and claims that different postures can be used to gain experience and insight into different areas such as healing, divination etc. He provides countless examples from his group that he practiced the postures with.
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